He was grown up in a
liberal family in Zara,
Austria-Hungary (today
Zadar,
Croatia). As a child, two of his greatest friends were the
Croat Petar Klaić and the
Serb Dušan Baljak. Although he was open to make some concessions to the
Slavs, Ghiglianovich endeavored to get at least Zara annexed to
Italy. He endeavored against the "process of discrimination actuated by the municipalities in Croatian hands," thus attempting to preserve the
Italian language in schools and in the public administration. Upon
Italy's entry in
World War I, he escaped from Austria to
Rome, where he was chosen, at the end of the war, member of the Italian delegation to the
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), as an aggregate in the marine section, as a legal expert for Dalmatia. Ghiglianovich, who became judge at the
Supreme Court of Cassation, was then nominated
Senator of the Kingdom of Italy on November 15, 1920. In the 1920s, he got sick and retired in his hometown Zara (present-day
Zadar). He died in
Gorizia on September 2, 1930. ==References==